WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from February 15, 2018

Listener comments!
	8:56pm Trouble: Good Morning and behold: Kehinde Wiley paints the official portrait of President Obama!
	8:54am Webhamster Henry: I was going to ask a little early if you needed your image scaled, but it looks fine today!
	9:02am Trouble: merci @webmaster!!! nice to be thought of...
	9:08am northguineahills: must see this Shirley Collins doc!
	9:08am melinda: Morning Trub!
	9:10am mb: Good morning Trouble and all those in the modern world
	9:10am Satis-factory records: Hi Trouble & folks!
	9:12am Trouble: so far i don't see the shirley collins movie in US yet...www.shirleycollinsmovie.com
	9:15am Aaron Working In Newark: Great start today! :)
	9:16am queems: good morning!
	9:19am Trouble: merci @aaron working innewark!
	9:19am BronwynB: hey trouble and everyone! thanks so much for playing this verdi. we need more opera on fmu. my personal fave from il trovatore is di quella pira, mostly for the part where the male chorus gets to be all ALL'ARMI, ALL'ARMI!
	9:20am northguineahills: Damn, knew it was Callas!
	9:21am Sem: Well, this is absolutely lovely. Thanks, Trouble, and hello, all.
	9:21am Ken From Hyde Park: Yay, me! I recognized the painting just by the top part. Nice selection.
	9:22am northguineahills: @Ken: me too!
	9:28am Trouble: glad to see the opera love! and of course the kehinde wiley love~
	9:31am Itzall Ablurr: This is indeed a lovely journey. Good morning, Trouble.
	9:32am Webhamster Henry: There needs to be an Alice Coltrane special!
	9:34am Irene Trudel: Beautiful piece!
	9:34am Webhamster Henry: @BronwynB I agree - there's is a big gap of classical music (and show tunes) in WFMU's music programming.
	9:35am Trouble: on my august 31 show i played a giant block o alice @webmaster, in honor of her aug 27 birthday
	9:35am Trouble: bonjour @irene!
	9:37am BronwynB: @WHenry: I need to start playing show tunes on my show since as a teen they were 75% of what I listened to and I truly love them and want to showcase some of the weirder ones out there but im a bit nervous that people would hate it
	9:43am melinda: Do it, Bronwyn!
	9:43am Kurt: He's got 6 fingers and his hands are as long as his forearms.
	9:43am weemikie: I think Irene played that Bridget Mae power song this week, but we forgive you, Trouble! When it’s a good one we can practically hear it all day everyday.
	9:43am MD: I guess Barack did not have seasonal allergies...I mean he posed in all that Plant life...
	9:44am MD: Good morning Art Fans...
	9:44am MD: And the new guy is a Liar and a crook....There ya go...
	9:45am Kurt: The old guy was a liar and a crook. And according to this portrait a circus freak.
	9:46am βrian: Nice foliage, no?
	9:47am exile-on-hicks-street: The Maria Callas did have that “Shawshank Redemption”-esque, stop-whatever-you’re-doing quality. Divina indeed...
	9:47am MD: ha ha ha...."Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into a dream..."
	9:50am melinda: Amor lifted my spirits.
	9:50am MD: @ Kurt..Good Morning Comrade...
	9:51am βrian: Yeah, I'm somewhat allergic to show tunes. It's as if they can can't decide whether they're theater or music, so the end up as lukewarm pablum. There are exceptions, of course ...
	9:51am sugarplumfairywolf: I love showtunes
	9:52am JakeGould: @Kurt: Who are you rambling about, Kurt? Also, this GIF of the portrait is amazing. www.conservativebookclub.com...
	9:52am rsj: had a very weird pop-up player malfunction, music got very dramatic and classical suddenly, still showed the popup player streaming...restart fixed it Amazing painting, but way selfie culture, hyper-rouseau like...no gritty reality there
	9:53am sugarplumfairywolf: Jacques Dutronc! His son is posting pictures of some of his father's many cats, sitting on a box. Corsican cats gonna cat.
	9:53am Trouble: this playlist goes political fall de rall this morning: i'm shutting it down. just sayin. not in the mood
	9:53am wittsend: morning trouble
	9:54am MD: @ jakeGould...Thank you for that! Really..it made me laugh....It's very hard to laugh this morning...thanks...I was watching the news reports this morning with tears in my eyes...
	9:55am MD: Copy...
	9:55am βrian: ... and this is why I think "Marry me a little" exquisitely fits the niche. Brilliant, that.
	9:56am JakeGould: Jimmy Carter: npg.si.edu... Richard Nixon: npg.si.edu...
	9:58am queems: i feel that
	9:59am βrian: Presumably the honor of an official portrait wouldn't extend to an impeached president, I hope. Thanks for the links, JakeGould.
	10:01am Kurt: Did Clinton not have a portrait done?
	10:02am JakeGould: Anyone have any neighborhood stray cats they have a soft sport for? I have like a dozen or more near where I live. But there is one tiny tiger cat that brings a small tear to my eye: He/she’s neck is constantly askew to the right. I guess it busted it’s neck as a kitten? Seems healthy otherwise, but seeing that tiny face at an angle look at me makes me feel so many feels.
	10:02am Itzall Ablurr: Very nice groove. Good to work these incredibly complex post paths to this morning.
	10:03am queems: @jake i have a soft spot for all of the neighborhood cats but they don’t have a soft spot for me
	10:05am JakeGould: The first time I saw that askew head kitten it was very cold ridden. Like a face full of crusted snot. Near a school so kids and parents were even worried about it. But it survived the cold spell—I assume someone took it inside—so happy it’s still around.
	10:05am MD: The paintings of Barak and Michelle are really cool...Love Em!
	10:05am Linda Lee: i'm happy too Jake.
	10:06am Linda Lee: now it has a chance to make it inside for good.
	10:07am BronwynB: there's a neighborhood cat on my street in crown heights that my boyfriend and i named oscar
	10:07am βrian: @Kurt: npg.si.edu... We used to have a time-share kitty who would come to hang out from a few doors down. A big brute of a love-sponge he was.
	10:08am Trouble: a little blackk cat i thought was a dude cat is now most likely pregnant. so prince spooky is now queen spooky, and i need to figure out how to get her captured and neutered and find those future kittens homes.
	10:08am queems: i have about 3 who come hang out on my porch to yell at each other. it drives my inside cat NUTS
	10:09am JakeGould: @Trouble: Best of luck! And if Queen Spooky trusts you, expect her to share her kittens with you.
	10:10am Linda Lee: @Trouble ~ we're lucky enough to have a few active TNR groups here in ulster/sullivan county. i'd guess you do too.
	10:10am melinda: When I was in college there was a neighborhood cat who would come around and we let him in the apartment for visits even though we weren't supposed to have cats. He was a big soft black kitty. I would welcome a vistor cat now since I'm currently catless but there aren't any.
	10:11am melinda: Has anyone seen Kedi, the documentary about Turkish street cats? It's really good.
	10:11am Linda Lee: melinda ~ try leaving some kibble out by your door for a while, along with water. if they're around, they'll find it. viola!
	10:12am Webhamster Henry: @BronwynB There used to be a show on WKCR that played only Theatrical and "commercial" music, from past shows that everyone forgot, cabaret songs (like Irene played on Tuesday), highlighting and interviewing performers who weren't even dead, and playing board and audition rarities. "Musical Theater Today". It stopped broadcasting about 20 years ago, and its enthusiastic and obsessive host Ezio Petersen died in 2016.
	10:12am queems: @melinda i wanted to see that! i wasn’t sure if it would make me sad or not
	10:13am The Oscar: My neighborhood is full of cats, and my girlfriend and I have names for all of them. The best one is called AwesomeCat. He'll jump out in front of you and roll over for pets, and if you walk past he'll run ahead of you and do it again. Also, seconded on Kedi-- really wonderful film.
	10:13am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, gang!
	10:13am βrian: @melinda: That was our situation, too. We kept treats and catnip on hand. We vaguely felt as if we were contributing to the delinquency of a cat.
	10:13am Sem: The village I walk to most mornings has a couple of cats who have the run of the place, that everyone pets and feeds, but as far as we know, are formally "staff-less." Old joke: dogs have owners, cats have...
	10:13am JakeGould: @melinda: Saw trailers. Seems good. The neighborhood I live in is very Middle Eastern so the attitude towards cats is decidedly non-Western: The cats basically come and go at will in shops. Sometimes at night the cats just become street cats until the morning and they go back into the store. They’re less pets and property and more “The cat that likes my store so I deal with them.”
	10:13am Linda Lee: Kedi = Turkish for 'kitty' & the name of one of mine. :-)
	10:14am The Oscar: @queems There's one kinda sad part, but it's pretty quick. It's mostly just really warm and happy.
	10:14am JakeGould: Also, big ups to black cats with tiny tufts in front.
	10:14am melinda: Great idea, Linda! My neighbor's cat spends some time outdoors but I would feel weird bringing him into my house.@Brian I know what you mean.
	10:15am βrian: @JG: Do you mean the white bib?
	10:16am queems: @the oscar thanks for the warning! sad cats have always been my #1 downer
	10:16am steveo: We recently saw some sweet cats living in a manger in Red Hook, Brooklyn. photos.app.goo.gl...
	10:16am Linda Lee: @melinda, i'm guessing he'll make it in if he really wants to. @JakeGould ~ presonally i find that very sensible. this 'pet' thing is getting out of hand. a billion dollar a year industry .. pet medical insurance .. psych meds for kitty..
	10:17am JakeGould: @Brian: Nope, just a tiny tuft. Not a big patch like a tuxedo cat. Sometimes you can see it. Sometimes you can’t. When they get bigger you generally can see it.
	10:17am melinda: Agree that Kedi is mostly warm and happy, since Turkey has a culture of cat appreciation. I did wonder about cultural attitudes about spaying and neutering, which wasn't addressed in the film.
	10:18am βrian: All of these cats are going to start chattering when the bird track plays ...
	10:18am melinda: White tufts are adorable. So are bibs and socks.
	10:18am Linda Lee: if people are utilizing cats as rodent prevention & they're all provided for, i can see where spaying/neutering won't have the same importance.it's all about culture.
	10:18am BronwynB: @WHenry: that sounds wonderful. as a teen i used to listen to the broadway channel on sirius xm which plays the same shit all the time and way too many shitty rock musicals (rock musicals are fine in theory but barely anyone seems to understand how to execute them well). i really should start playing more show tunes on my show because there's a real need imo for thoughtful and wide-ranging musical theatre radio programming, especially in this area.
	10:20am queems: “don’t be such a stupid man” is my new catch phrase
	10:20am βrian: I used to have a black long-haired polydactyl kitty (24 toes). She could walk on snow.
	10:21am JakeGould: FWIW, the fine if the Department of Health finds “evidence of vermin” in a shop is the exact same fine as if they find a cat in your shop in NYC. Last I knew, it was like a $350 fine. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
	10:21am Linda Lee: wow!! 24 toes!! champion polydactyl! mine only has 22 :-)
	10:21am melinda: @Linda I saw a video about a woman in Istanbul who was spaying/neutering neighborhood cats because she saw the kitten population as too much, but she was an expat from somewhere else. There is probably a variety of attitudes among people there.
	10:22am steveo: huge theater community here, of course, so I think you can find that audience. i'd be into it even though I'm just a regular person/stupid man.
	10:22am βrian: A bookstore isn't a bookstore without at least one cat.
	10:22am Linda Lee: @JakeCGould ~ so health department promotes the use of poisons in the stores.
	10:23am Andrea: thank you yellow toast
	10:23am Linda Lee: @melinda ~ the fact that she was ex-pat sort of confirms my idea that it's about culture.
	10:23am Linda Lee: gosh haven't heard frank chickens in aeons! an old fave band!
	10:24am JakeGould: @LindaLee: Nah, it’s more like DoH inspections are a source of revenue or a method of bullying stores out of the neighborhood. I’ve seen more than a few businesses that were in the community for decades, no complaints and then suddenly… BOOM! Closed due to violations and then guess what happens? You find out the building was—or will be—sold.
	10:25am Linda Lee: @JakeGould ~ shit.
	10:27am Linda Lee: here comes yet another monochromatic non-neighborhood of empty high-rise investment.
	10:27am JakeGould: Shouldn’t be shocking in NYC anymore. It’s easy to understand: The system is so burdened with complaints that nothing happens unless something is pushed to the head of the list. Have power in the community and want something gone? Just use your political pull to push a complaint to be acted on immediately and put someone out of business. It happens far more often than you can imagine.
	10:27am queems: the bodega cat at my local deli when i lived in astoria used to have his own little cat house inside
	10:27am Linda Lee: not shocking at all. just so unrelenting.
	10:29am dgg: They've put up a 70-story condo highrise on the waterfront at the East Bway stop. Its gargantuan and awful.
	10:29am Linda Lee: the power & reach of greed is just breathtaking. really.
	10:29am βrian: Les oiseaux, est-ce qu'ils arrivent ?
	10:31am JakeGould: @dgg: That thing is right next to the Manhattan Bridge and is such an aberration to the skyline!
	10:33am Linda Lee: the funny (strange) part is, this is strictly investment. no one will live in these buildings. so eventually you have a ghost town vibe with nothing happening. then the world abandons the dollar .. out goes the investment. not only is this monumental greed fatally inhuman, it's myopic!
	10:34am queems: i look west out of my office window, and i can see long island city. 8 years ago when i started, you could see 1 world trade and the citi bank building and that was it. now there are like 5 or 6 other ugly condo buildings overwhelming the skyline. it is crazy
	10:34am northguineahills: Coming back to visit NYC Memorial Day weekend, scared of what I'll find of my old haunts/hoods....
	10:35am Linda Lee: the only viable long term investment is in actual community. not this leggo bullshit.
	10:37am Linda Lee: @nirthguineahills ~ i was born in nyc 1960 & lived there til 1997. i don' even care to go back any more.
	10:38am Linda Lee: sorry, typing with yellow toast in one hand ..
	10:40am northguineahills: @Linda Lee: Well, my wife (who just came down to FL for a week and just left), and many of my friends still live there. There is still some creative activity there.
	10:40am βrian: La fauvette grisette.: www.youtube.com...
	10:41am Webhamster Henry: Our cat PLW was a street cat who went in and out a lot. He'd come when you called for him! He got in a fight with some critter a year ago so we keep him indoors now. I like store cats - but some people are allergic. There was a massive white cat called Fluffy at a pet store in Park Slope 20 years ago who was quite a fixture!
	10:41am Linda Lee: well sure. creative people have to create. i do get the idea that it's not create first, make-a-living second or third, as it was at one time. so you have an impact on the creative world.
	10:41am βrian: Habibi is good. I prefer habib'ti.
	10:43am northguineahills: I'm become a cat-magnet for my neighbors' cats. When they hear my car coming into my driveway, one will be there expecting tummy rubs,
	10:43am Linda Lee: you're blessed, man.
	10:44am Andrea: bitch and freeze
	10:45am Andrea: but bichon frises are actually wonderful sweet dogs, especially if you imagine that they are bunnies.
	10:45am βrian: Polydactyl kitty, whom I mentioned earlier, was very dog-like when it came to playing fetch. Fetch and retrieve, fetch and retrieve. She never got tired.
	10:45am Linda Lee: what a nice go-gos cover!
	10:45am Itzall Ablurr: WKC is not nor has it ever been about the TYPE of dog, but always BEST IN BREED. I know you know that, we all do and yeah, I kinda' hate it when a topiaried poodle or a Bichon wins, but them's the breaks.
	10:46am Jeff Moore: Actually, the border collie seemed the most magnificent. That was an intellectually focused animal. But the gross ridiculous little white hairball, really? Travesty.
	10:46am Linda Lee: do black cats especially love fetching? this is my experience..
	10:47am northguineahills: Ok. who remember who did that nearly drone dirge pop version of "our lips our sealed" w/ a female vocalist? It's been bugging me for months.
	10:48am northguineahills: @Linda Lee:, my old black cat, lagerfeld, used to love to fetch anything, especially bottle caps.
	10:48am βrian: I always thought the breed was "DOG."
	10:48am Linda Lee: confirmed! :-)
	10:48am Devin B.: @NGH: Fuxa?
	10:49am The Oscar: THANK you-- "Le Telephone" was stuck in my head some weeks ago, and I could not for the life of me remember what it was (or any words to google).
	10:49am JakeGould: I hate this year’s Westminster Dog Show winner. Poofy nothing.
	10:50am Itzall Ablurr: No, it's a little more specific than DOG. There are many breeds; fluffy, muttly, rotund, sissy, lap-squirrel, mauler, shakey & mastodon to name but a few.
	10:50am Jeff Moore: But Kim pointed out one upside to this year's choice: the winning Westminster breed often gets bought a lot in the following year, and those silly little puffballs will make way lower-maintenance pets for naive people who buy a dog without proper research than a border collie or even a giant schnauzer.
	10:51am emily: good morning. late to the party.
	10:51am stalvey: Trouble, just have Evan Davies tape a fantasy win call for the schnauzer. He's better than the real ring announcer anyway.
	10:51am Chris from DC: The winner of the toy group was cool.
	10:51am βrian: Huh, my stream dropped out ...
	10:51am Sem: NGH: Moon Talk version of My Lips are Sealed?
	10:52am Linda Lee: WFMU comments: the best way to attend a party in your pajamas.
	10:55am βrian: Mongrels rule anyway.
	10:55am northguineahills: @Devin: I believe it was Fuxa! @Sem: Now I have to check their version! Thanks!
	10:55am ⓔⓘⓚ: I've never tried to get my new fuzzball to fetch. She's a spazz so I don't think she could focus long enough to do it, even if she knew how! www.instagram.com...
	10:56am Itzall Ablurr: She's beautiful, eik.
	10:59am northguineahills: @Ike: my cat did automatically, a friend tried to throw a bottle cap from across the room into the trash from the couch, and the little kitten ran after it, and brought it back. After that, it was his favorite game (and playing 'hockey' w/ said bottle caps)
	10:59am peter in Sea: Bon jour Trouble and troubled listeners!
	10:59am Linda Lee: @eik ~ what a lovely cat!!
	11:01am MD: I LOVE THIS SONG!!1 IT'S BEEN YEARS!!!
	11:01am Linda Lee: yes. my champion fetcher did it naturally too. displaced predator behavior :-)
	11:01am Lixiviated Life: ... ! Lawn Chairs are presently in the shed.
	11:01am MD: These songs were soooo deep!!!!
	11:01am queems: a tortie!! my girl is a tortie too!!
	11:01am Lixiviated Life: Really going deep into the library for this one.
	11:01am High in Atlanta: Great show today, Trouble! Fun Boy Three. Our Daughter's Wedding. Geez! You are knocking it out of the park!
	11:02am Linda Lee: i've had mainly black cats. never a tortie! my loss. :-)
	11:02am MD: Get it? "Lawn Chairs"....wink....wink!!!
	11:02am Lixiviated Life: Trouble, there's no way your old enough to have heard this back in the day.
	11:03am Linda Lee: i am! & then some. :-D
	11:03am MD: Oh ...I'm just makin stuff up!!!
	11:05am still b/p: Web strap lawn chairs, si! Plastic tube strip lawn chairs, NO!
	11:05am ⓔⓚⓔⓔ: @Linda, good for you! I hear that superstitious people still refuse to adopt black cats, so others like you fortunately step up to fill that gap. I meant to do that too this time, but this one stole my heart first. She's mostly black, though!
	11:05am βrian: Lozenge is a good word. I'd use it as my mantra.
	11:06am Trouble: i love black cats! and orange cats, and grey cats
	11:06am Linda Lee: @eik ~ believe it or not it was never intentional. they just appear. ;-) agree though, it's good to make an effort to adopt the black cats if you have the choice. i think they're lovely.
	11:06am queems: oh man i love big ol grey cats
	11:07am βrian: Our current cat (pictured) is a creamsicle.
	11:08am Linda Lee: what a beauty!! wow. happy too!
	11:09am βrian: That's during "garden time" when the bliss hormones are at high tide.
	11:10am Linda Lee: ho!! no doubt.
	11:12am Linda Lee: 'mas que nada' by brasil 66 ~ most fave record as a wee one. always a soft spot for the song. lovely!!
	11:12am Linda Lee: often sang it to my cats, actually. :-D
	11:13am Linda Lee: using their names for the lyrics.
	11:13am northguineahills: Digging this Luiz Henrique version!
	11:14am Trouble: read this! and go see her at little city books next thursday in hoboken : www.littlecitybooks.com...
	11:15am Linda Lee: one of my cats now lives in Hoboken.. :-D
	11:15am βrian: I used to believe French was the natural language of cats; now I think Portuguese might be more likely.
	11:17am renbo: What genre of music is this I always forget
	11:17am Linda Lee: @Brian ~ yes & they sound just like flora purim at 45 rpm :-)
	11:17am queems: this set is making me feel like i’m on vacation
	11:19am renbo: howdy one of the reasons I got up earlier than usual this mornin was cuz it's thursday and trouble's on!!! work the late shift
	11:20am still b/p: They find their greatest fluency in indifference.
	11:21am Trouble: thank you @renbo!
	11:22am renbo: I meant the Portuguese songs that were just on sorry yeah, definitely girl...i used to always be in trouble and hated it now you showed me trouble can be good too I been listenin to your stuff for more than a decade--can it be close to two?
	11:22am dgg: @JakeGould it surely is horrible. It towers over the entire lower east side and chinatown.
	11:23am dgg: @JakeGould and the East Bway stop is already tiny and packed. So add like 5k people a morning...
	11:24am thriftstoreleather: I love Blossom Dearie!!!
	11:24am thriftstoreleather: yay
	11:27am Lixiviated Life: another recovering catholic? welcome to the club
	11:27am Viviane: it's called tropicalia
	11:29am Nick: Trouble, did you announce the Carla Bruni show? I heard she's perfroming in NYC
	11:30am Linda Lee: oh my word! carla bruni!
	11:31am Trouble: yes gal costa would be tropicalia, but flora purim also?
	11:31am peter in Sea: Thanks for the shoutout! Maybe you can go to BOTH! :-)
	11:31am \ⓔⓘⓚ/: I love Elif Batuman! Also, I just read "The Nightmare Stacks" by Charles Stross. It's the best book I've ever read about a romantically-inexperienced 24-year-old investment banking software engineer who accidentally turned himself into a vampire with advanced computational mathematics, then was basically forced into the secret British anti-occult civil service, and has to fight bloodthirsty feudal magical elves who are invading Leeds because they're fleeing a parallel universe full of Eldritch horrors.
	11:32am Trouble: thanks @nick! carla bruni in boston at berkelee tonight, nyc town hall tomorrow
	11:32am foofs: Carla! The Melania Trump of coffee table folk-lite!
	11:32am Itzall Ablurr: "Elf Batman"?!? Is that anything like Bizzarro Superman?!?
	11:33am Trouble: ike you have missed your calling: book reviewer extrodinaire!
	11:35am Chris from DC: Crap, I missed "Lawnchairs".
	11:36am still b/p: Bloodthirsty Feudal Magical Elves — GNFAB winner for Feb.
	11:42am D. Lightfoot: play something to shoo the doom imps from my mind
	11:45am thriftstoreleather: how can people hate the saxophone??
	11:48am thriftstoreleather: cool, The Yearning is new! That's exciting :)
	11:49am D. Lightfoot: It's a woodwind made of brass--people don't like things that try to have it both ways
	11:51am thriftstoreleather: are there wooden saxophones out there? that might be cool..
	11:52am D. Lightfoot: Yes, they are called clarinets
	11:52am βrian: Reminds me of RadioDread.
	11:52am thriftstoreleather: I knew you were gonna say that :)
	11:53am βrian: But not the Ska thing.
	11:53am partyfinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_saxophone plastic ones
	11:55am thriftstoreleather: ThePlasticSax, thats a good band name
	11:55am \ⓔⓘⓚ/: It's very funny, yet the culture of the vicious, bloodthirsty elves is actually well-written and distinctive, too. It's a military dictatorship enforced by a magical chain of command. The culture shock that the invaders experience is really interesting.
	11:55am Trouble: thanks for sitting in, troublers!
	11:55am partyfinger: indeed!
	11:56am βrian: Coming up on the hour: Underwater Theme Park with Meghan wfmu.org...
	11:56am Priscilla: Thanks Trouble — I feel you are an island of sanity today :-(
	11:58am queems: thanks trouble!
	11:59am northguineahills: Thanks Trouble!
	11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: I believe Meghan's having a birthday show today.
	11:59am thriftstoreleather: look at the time!
	12:00pm thriftstoreleather: thanks Trouble!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from February 15, 2018

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A viking ship appears on the horizon, a likeness of Alice Coltrane carved into its bow. Rare birds flock together to sing Francoise Hardy as soul hits. A sunset of blips and bleeps fills the air.

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February 15, 2018: self titled

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	New	Approx. start time
mavis staples	i have learned to do without you	only the lonely	stax				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
ian kearney	the poor drowned sailor	the ballad of shirley collins OST	earth			*	0:04:20 (Pop-up)
Sidney Hemphill Carter	pharoah "pharoah" by "Sidney Hemphill Carter"	the ballad of shirley collins OST	earth			*	0:05:16 (Pop-up)
brigid mae power	is my presence in the room enough for you?	the two worlds	tompkins square			*	0:09:38 (Pop-up)
maria callas	verdi: il trovatore "verdi: il trovatore" by "maria callas"	la divina	angel				0:13:55 (Pop-up)
the supremes	it's time to break down	new ways but love stays	motown				0:20:55 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda	journey to satchidananda	The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda	luaka bop				0:26:31 (Pop-up)

Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band	los cuatro muleros	Anda Jaleo	fire records				0:44:42 (Pop-up)
secos and molhados	amor "amor" by "secos and molhados"	brazil 70 v/a new directions in brazilian music in the 1970's	Soul Jazz Records				0:47:11 (Pop-up)
jacques dutronc	les metamorphoses	jacques dutronc	Disques Vogue/BMG				0:49:00 (Pop-up)
marisa anderson	keep your lamps trimmed and burning	Traditional and Public Domain Songs	mississippi			*	0:51:25 (Pop-up)
little nicky soul	i wanted to tell you	Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities, Volume 6	kent			*	0:55:03 (Pop-up)
orgone	the black five "the black five" by "orgone"	undercover mixtape	colemine			*	0:57:08 (Pop-up)
the shangri-las	The Train From Kansas City	john savage's 1965	ace			*	1:02:15 (Pop-up)
Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas	My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains	The World of Captain Beefheart	knitting factory			*	1:05:21 (Pop-up)
marie queenie lyons	snake in the grass	soul fever	vampi soul				1:07:34 (Pop-up)
kamal kelia	al asafir "al asafir" by "kamal kelia"	Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection of Music from the Arab World	habibi funk			*	1:11:29 (Pop-up)
jackie shane	in my tenement "in my tenement" by "jackie shane"	any other way	numero group				1:15:54 (Pop-up)
frank chickens	yellow toast ( BURNT MIX)	yellow toast ep	flying lecords		12"		1:18:51 (Pop-up)
love joys	long lost lover "long lost lover" by "love joys"	lovers rock	Wackie's				1:25:06 (Pop-up)
femi kuti	equal opportunity "equal opportunity" by "femi kuti"	one people one world	KFR			*	1:34:54 (Pop-up)

fun boy three	our lips are sealed	our lips are sealed	chrysalis		7"		1:43:45 (Pop-up)
elli & jacno	le telephone "le telephone" by "elli & jacno"	le telephone	cbs		7"		1:45:58 (Pop-up)
islaja	earthy side "earthy side" by "islaja"	Tarrantula	svart			*	1:50:04 (Pop-up)
caroline rose	jeannie becomes a mom	loner	new west			*	1:54:37 (Pop-up)
Our Daughter's Wedding	lawnchairs	our daughter's wedding	EMI America		7"		1:59:02 (Pop-up)
i think like midnight	lozenge "lozenge" by "i think like midnight"	this land is your mind	quadrapuss			*	2:03:23 (Pop-up)
tune-yards	heart attack "heart attack" by "tune-yards"	i can feel you creep into ,y private life	4ad			*	2:06:28 (Pop-up)
luiz henrique	mas que nada "mas que nada" by "luiz henrique"	record club v two	mr bongo			*	2:09:38 (Pop-up)
gal costa	Namorinho de Portao "Namorinho de Portao" by "gal costa"	gal costa	mercury				2:13:05 (Pop-up)
flora purim	love reborn "love reborn" by "flora purim"	butterfly dreams	mmileston				2:16:25 (Pop-up)
kent schneider	the church is within us, oh lord	That's What Friends Are For v/a	jazzman records				2:19:44 (Pop-up)
blossom dearie	moonlight saving time	once upon a summertime	verve				2:21:42 (Pop-up)

ilyas ahmed	zero for below "zero for below" by "ilyas ahmed"	closer to stranger	mie				2:29:08 (Pop-up)
tandaapushi	interlude 2 "interlude 2" by "tandaapushi"	borromean rings	jvtlandt			*	2:33:30 (Pop-up)
sandra bell	at the place "at the place" by "sandra bell"	net	drawing room			*	2:35:15 (Pop-up)
Television Personalities	have a nice day	beautiful despair	fire records	1990		*	2:39:18 (Pop-up)
the yearning	everything is you "everything is you" by "the yearning"	take me all over the world	Elefant Records			*	2:42:29 (Pop-up)
boyo	haunts "haunts" by "boyo"	me, again	danger collective			*	2:45:11 (Pop-up)
loma	dark oscillations "dark oscillations" by "loma"	Loma	sub pop			*	2:48:59 (Pop-up)
nite jewel	when i decide ( it's alright)	real high	gloriette records				2:54:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	8:56pm Trouble: Good Morning and behold: Kehinde Wiley paints the official portrait of President Obama!
	8:54am Webhamster Henry: I was going to ask a little early if you needed your image scaled, but it looks fine today!
	9:02am Trouble: merci @webmaster!!! nice to be thought of...
	9:08am northguineahills: must see this Shirley Collins doc!
	9:08am melinda: Morning Trub!
	9:10am mb: Good morning Trouble and all those in the modern world
	9:10am Satis-factory records: Hi Trouble & folks!
	9:12am Trouble: so far i don't see the shirley collins movie in US yet...www.shirleycollinsmovie.com
	9:15am Aaron Working In Newark: Great start today! :)
	9:16am queems: good morning!
	9:19am Trouble: merci @aaron working innewark!
	9:19am BronwynB: hey trouble and everyone! thanks so much for playing this verdi. we need more opera on fmu. my personal fave from il trovatore is di quella pira, mostly for the part where the male chorus gets to be all ALL'ARMI, ALL'ARMI!
	9:20am northguineahills: Damn, knew it was Callas!
	9:21am Sem: Well, this is absolutely lovely. Thanks, Trouble, and hello, all.
	9:21am Ken From Hyde Park: Yay, me! I recognized the painting just by the top part. Nice selection.
	9:22am northguineahills: @Ken: me too!
	9:28am Trouble: glad to see the opera love! and of course the kehinde wiley love~
	9:31am Itzall Ablurr: This is indeed a lovely journey. Good morning, Trouble.
	9:32am Webhamster Henry: There needs to be an Alice Coltrane special!
	9:34am Irene Trudel: Beautiful piece!
	9:34am Webhamster Henry: @BronwynB I agree - there's is a big gap of classical music (and show tunes) in WFMU's music programming.
	9:35am Trouble: on my august 31 show i played a giant block o alice @webmaster, in honor of her aug 27 birthday
	9:35am Trouble: bonjour @irene!
	9:37am BronwynB: @WHenry: I need to start playing show tunes on my show since as a teen they were 75% of what I listened to and I truly love them and want to showcase some of the weirder ones out there but im a bit nervous that people would hate it
	9:43am melinda: Do it, Bronwyn!
	9:43am Kurt: He's got 6 fingers and his hands are as long as his forearms.
	9:43am weemikie: I think Irene played that Bridget Mae power song this week, but we forgive you, Trouble! When it’s a good one we can practically hear it all day everyday.
	9:43am MD: I guess Barack did not have seasonal allergies...I mean he posed in all that Plant life...
	9:44am MD: Good morning Art Fans...
	9:44am MD: And the new guy is a Liar and a crook....There ya go...
	9:45am Kurt: The old guy was a liar and a crook. And according to this portrait a circus freak.
	9:46am βrian: Nice foliage, no?
	9:47am exile-on-hicks-street: The Maria Callas did have that “Shawshank Redemption”-esque, stop-whatever-you’re-doing quality. Divina indeed...
	9:47am MD: ha ha ha...."Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into a dream..."
	9:50am melinda: Amor lifted my spirits.
	9:50am MD: @ Kurt..Good Morning Comrade...
	9:51am βrian: Yeah, I'm somewhat allergic to show tunes. It's as if they can can't decide whether they're theater or music, so the end up as lukewarm pablum. There are exceptions, of course ...
	9:51am sugarplumfairywolf: I love showtunes
	9:52am JakeGould: @Kurt: Who are you rambling about, Kurt? Also, this GIF of the portrait is amazing. www.conservativebookclub.com...
	9:52am rsj: had a very weird pop-up player malfunction, music got very dramatic and classical suddenly, still showed the popup player streaming...restart fixed it Amazing painting, but way selfie culture, hyper-rouseau like...no gritty reality there
	9:53am sugarplumfairywolf: Jacques Dutronc! His son is posting pictures of some of his father's many cats, sitting on a box. Corsican cats gonna cat.
	9:53am Trouble: this playlist goes political fall de rall this morning: i'm shutting it down. just sayin. not in the mood
	9:53am wittsend: morning trouble
	9:54am MD: @ jakeGould...Thank you for that! Really..it made me laugh....It's very hard to laugh this morning...thanks...I was watching the news reports this morning with tears in my eyes...
	9:55am MD: Copy...
	9:55am βrian: ... and this is why I think "Marry me a little" exquisitely fits the niche. Brilliant, that.
	9:56am JakeGould: Jimmy Carter: npg.si.edu... Richard Nixon: npg.si.edu...
	9:58am queems: i feel that
	9:59am βrian: Presumably the honor of an official portrait wouldn't extend to an impeached president, I hope. Thanks for the links, JakeGould.
	10:01am Kurt: Did Clinton not have a portrait done?
	10:02am JakeGould: Anyone have any neighborhood stray cats they have a soft sport for? I have like a dozen or more near where I live. But there is one tiny tiger cat that brings a small tear to my eye: He/she’s neck is constantly askew to the right. I guess it busted it’s neck as a kitten? Seems healthy otherwise, but seeing that tiny face at an angle look at me makes me feel so many feels.
	10:02am Itzall Ablurr: Very nice groove. Good to work these incredibly complex post paths to this morning.
	10:03am queems: @jake i have a soft spot for all of the neighborhood cats but they don’t have a soft spot for me
	10:05am JakeGould: The first time I saw that askew head kitten it was very cold ridden. Like a face full of crusted snot. Near a school so kids and parents were even worried about it. But it survived the cold spell—I assume someone took it inside—so happy it’s still around.
	10:05am MD: The paintings of Barak and Michelle are really cool...Love Em!
	10:05am Linda Lee: i'm happy too Jake.
	10:06am Linda Lee: now it has a chance to make it inside for good.
	10:07am BronwynB: there's a neighborhood cat on my street in crown heights that my boyfriend and i named oscar
	10:07am βrian: @Kurt: npg.si.edu... We used to have a time-share kitty who would come to hang out from a few doors down. A big brute of a love-sponge he was.
	10:08am Trouble: a little blackk cat i thought was a dude cat is now most likely pregnant. so prince spooky is now queen spooky, and i need to figure out how to get her captured and neutered and find those future kittens homes.
	10:08am queems: i have about 3 who come hang out on my porch to yell at each other. it drives my inside cat NUTS
	10:09am JakeGould: @Trouble: Best of luck! And if Queen Spooky trusts you, expect her to share her kittens with you.
	10:10am Linda Lee: @Trouble ~ we're lucky enough to have a few active TNR groups here in ulster/sullivan county. i'd guess you do too.
	10:10am melinda: When I was in college there was a neighborhood cat who would come around and we let him in the apartment for visits even though we weren't supposed to have cats. He was a big soft black kitty. I would welcome a vistor cat now since I'm currently catless but there aren't any.
	10:11am melinda: Has anyone seen Kedi, the documentary about Turkish street cats? It's really good.
	10:11am Linda Lee: melinda ~ try leaving some kibble out by your door for a while, along with water. if they're around, they'll find it. viola!
	10:12am Webhamster Henry: @BronwynB There used to be a show on WKCR that played only Theatrical and "commercial" music, from past shows that everyone forgot, cabaret songs (like Irene played on Tuesday), highlighting and interviewing performers who weren't even dead, and playing board and audition rarities. "Musical Theater Today". It stopped broadcasting about 20 years ago, and its enthusiastic and obsessive host Ezio Petersen died in 2016.
	10:12am queems: @melinda i wanted to see that! i wasn’t sure if it would make me sad or not
	10:13am The Oscar: My neighborhood is full of cats, and my girlfriend and I have names for all of them. The best one is called AwesomeCat. He'll jump out in front of you and roll over for pets, and if you walk past he'll run ahead of you and do it again. Also, seconded on Kedi-- really wonderful film.
	10:13am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, gang!
	10:13am βrian: @melinda: That was our situation, too. We kept treats and catnip on hand. We vaguely felt as if we were contributing to the delinquency of a cat.
	10:13am Sem: The village I walk to most mornings has a couple of cats who have the run of the place, that everyone pets and feeds, but as far as we know, are formally "staff-less." Old joke: dogs have owners, cats have...
	10:13am JakeGould: @melinda: Saw trailers. Seems good. The neighborhood I live in is very Middle Eastern so the attitude towards cats is decidedly non-Western: The cats basically come and go at will in shops. Sometimes at night the cats just become street cats until the morning and they go back into the store. They’re less pets and property and more “The cat that likes my store so I deal with them.”
	10:13am Linda Lee: Kedi = Turkish for 'kitty' & the name of one of mine. :-)
	10:14am The Oscar: @queems There's one kinda sad part, but it's pretty quick. It's mostly just really warm and happy.
	10:14am JakeGould: Also, big ups to black cats with tiny tufts in front.
	10:14am melinda: Great idea, Linda! My neighbor's cat spends some time outdoors but I would feel weird bringing him into my house.@Brian I know what you mean.
	10:15am βrian: @JG: Do you mean the white bib?
	10:16am queems: @the oscar thanks for the warning! sad cats have always been my #1 downer
	10:16am steveo: We recently saw some sweet cats living in a manger in Red Hook, Brooklyn. photos.app.goo.gl...
	10:16am Linda Lee: @melinda, i'm guessing he'll make it in if he really wants to. @JakeGould ~ presonally i find that very sensible. this 'pet' thing is getting out of hand. a billion dollar a year industry .. pet medical insurance .. psych meds for kitty..
	10:17am JakeGould: @Brian: Nope, just a tiny tuft. Not a big patch like a tuxedo cat. Sometimes you can see it. Sometimes you can’t. When they get bigger you generally can see it.
	10:17am melinda: Agree that Kedi is mostly warm and happy, since Turkey has a culture of cat appreciation. I did wonder about cultural attitudes about spaying and neutering, which wasn't addressed in the film.
	10:18am βrian: All of these cats are going to start chattering when the bird track plays ...
	10:18am melinda: White tufts are adorable. So are bibs and socks.
	10:18am Linda Lee: if people are utilizing cats as rodent prevention & they're all provided for, i can see where spaying/neutering won't have the same importance.it's all about culture.
	10:18am BronwynB: @WHenry: that sounds wonderful. as a teen i used to listen to the broadway channel on sirius xm which plays the same shit all the time and way too many shitty rock musicals (rock musicals are fine in theory but barely anyone seems to understand how to execute them well). i really should start playing more show tunes on my show because there's a real need imo for thoughtful and wide-ranging musical theatre radio programming, especially in this area.
	10:20am queems: “don’t be such a stupid man” is my new catch phrase
	10:20am βrian: I used to have a black long-haired polydactyl kitty (24 toes). She could walk on snow.
	10:21am JakeGould: FWIW, the fine if the Department of Health finds “evidence of vermin” in a shop is the exact same fine as if they find a cat in your shop in NYC. Last I knew, it was like a $350 fine. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
	10:21am Linda Lee: wow!! 24 toes!! champion polydactyl! mine only has 22 :-)
	10:21am melinda: @Linda I saw a video about a woman in Istanbul who was spaying/neutering neighborhood cats because she saw the kitten population as too much, but she was an expat from somewhere else. There is probably a variety of attitudes among people there.
	10:22am steveo: huge theater community here, of course, so I think you can find that audience. i'd be into it even though I'm just a regular person/stupid man.
	10:22am βrian: A bookstore isn't a bookstore without at least one cat.
	10:22am Linda Lee: @JakeCGould ~ so health department promotes the use of poisons in the stores.
	10:23am Andrea: thank you yellow toast
	10:23am Linda Lee: @melinda ~ the fact that she was ex-pat sort of confirms my idea that it's about culture.
	10:23am Linda Lee: gosh haven't heard frank chickens in aeons! an old fave band!
	10:24am JakeGould: @LindaLee: Nah, it’s more like DoH inspections are a source of revenue or a method of bullying stores out of the neighborhood. I’ve seen more than a few businesses that were in the community for decades, no complaints and then suddenly… BOOM! Closed due to violations and then guess what happens? You find out the building was—or will be—sold.
	10:25am Linda Lee: @JakeGould ~ shit.
	10:27am Linda Lee: here comes yet another monochromatic non-neighborhood of empty high-rise investment.
	10:27am JakeGould: Shouldn’t be shocking in NYC anymore. It’s easy to understand: The system is so burdened with complaints that nothing happens unless something is pushed to the head of the list. Have power in the community and want something gone? Just use your political pull to push a complaint to be acted on immediately and put someone out of business. It happens far more often than you can imagine.
	10:27am queems: the bodega cat at my local deli when i lived in astoria used to have his own little cat house inside
	10:27am Linda Lee: not shocking at all. just so unrelenting.
	10:29am dgg: They've put up a 70-story condo highrise on the waterfront at the East Bway stop. Its gargantuan and awful.
	10:29am Linda Lee: the power & reach of greed is just breathtaking. really.
	10:29am βrian: Les oiseaux, est-ce qu'ils arrivent ?
	10:31am JakeGould: @dgg: That thing is right next to the Manhattan Bridge and is such an aberration to the skyline!
	10:33am Linda Lee: the funny (strange) part is, this is strictly investment. no one will live in these buildings. so eventually you have a ghost town vibe with nothing happening. then the world abandons the dollar .. out goes the investment. not only is this monumental greed fatally inhuman, it's myopic!
	10:34am queems: i look west out of my office window, and i can see long island city. 8 years ago when i started, you could see 1 world trade and the citi bank building and that was it. now there are like 5 or 6 other ugly condo buildings overwhelming the skyline. it is crazy
	10:34am northguineahills: Coming back to visit NYC Memorial Day weekend, scared of what I'll find of my old haunts/hoods....
	10:35am Linda Lee: the only viable long term investment is in actual community. not this leggo bullshit.
	10:37am Linda Lee: @nirthguineahills ~ i was born in nyc 1960 & lived there til 1997. i don' even care to go back any more.
	10:38am Linda Lee: sorry, typing with yellow toast in one hand ..
	10:40am northguineahills: @Linda Lee: Well, my wife (who just came down to FL for a week and just left), and many of my friends still live there. There is still some creative activity there.
	10:40am βrian: La fauvette grisette.: www.youtube.com...
	10:41am Webhamster Henry: Our cat PLW was a street cat who went in and out a lot. He'd come when you called for him! He got in a fight with some critter a year ago so we keep him indoors now. I like store cats - but some people are allergic. There was a massive white cat called Fluffy at a pet store in Park Slope 20 years ago who was quite a fixture!
	10:41am Linda Lee: well sure. creative people have to create. i do get the idea that it's not create first, make-a-living second or third, as it was at one time. so you have an impact on the creative world.
	10:41am βrian: Habibi is good. I prefer habib'ti.
	10:43am northguineahills: I'm become a cat-magnet for my neighbors' cats. When they hear my car coming into my driveway, one will be there expecting tummy rubs,
	10:43am Linda Lee: you're blessed, man.
	10:44am Andrea: bitch and freeze
	10:45am Andrea: but bichon frises are actually wonderful sweet dogs, especially if you imagine that they are bunnies.
	10:45am βrian: Polydactyl kitty, whom I mentioned earlier, was very dog-like when it came to playing fetch. Fetch and retrieve, fetch and retrieve. She never got tired.
	10:45am Linda Lee: what a nice go-gos cover!
	10:45am Itzall Ablurr: WKC is not nor has it ever been about the TYPE of dog, but always BEST IN BREED. I know you know that, we all do and yeah, I kinda' hate it when a topiaried poodle or a Bichon wins, but them's the breaks.
	10:46am Jeff Moore: Actually, the border collie seemed the most magnificent. That was an intellectually focused animal. But the gross ridiculous little white hairball, really? Travesty.
	10:46am Linda Lee: do black cats especially love fetching? this is my experience..
	10:47am northguineahills: Ok. who remember who did that nearly drone dirge pop version of "our lips our sealed" w/ a female vocalist? It's been bugging me for months.
	10:48am northguineahills: @Linda Lee:, my old black cat, lagerfeld, used to love to fetch anything, especially bottle caps.
	10:48am βrian: I always thought the breed was "DOG."
	10:48am Linda Lee: confirmed! :-)
	10:48am Devin B.: @NGH: Fuxa?
	10:49am The Oscar: THANK you-- "Le Telephone" was stuck in my head some weeks ago, and I could not for the life of me remember what it was (or any words to google).
	10:49am JakeGould: I hate this year’s Westminster Dog Show winner. Poofy nothing.
	10:50am Itzall Ablurr: No, it's a little more specific than DOG. There are many breeds; fluffy, muttly, rotund, sissy, lap-squirrel, mauler, shakey & mastodon to name but a few.
	10:50am Jeff Moore: But Kim pointed out one upside to this year's choice: the winning Westminster breed often gets bought a lot in the following year, and those silly little puffballs will make way lower-maintenance pets for naive people who buy a dog without proper research than a border collie or even a giant schnauzer.
	10:51am emily: good morning. late to the party.
	10:51am stalvey: Trouble, just have Evan Davies tape a fantasy win call for the schnauzer. He's better than the real ring announcer anyway.
	10:51am Chris from DC: The winner of the toy group was cool.
	10:51am βrian: Huh, my stream dropped out ...
	10:51am Sem: NGH: Moon Talk version of My Lips are Sealed?
	10:52am Linda Lee: WFMU comments: the best way to attend a party in your pajamas.
	10:55am βrian: Mongrels rule anyway.
	10:55am northguineahills: @Devin: I believe it was Fuxa! @Sem: Now I have to check their version! Thanks!
	10:55am ⓔⓘⓚ: I've never tried to get my new fuzzball to fetch. She's a spazz so I don't think she could focus long enough to do it, even if she knew how! www.instagram.com...
	10:56am Itzall Ablurr: She's beautiful, eik.
	10:59am northguineahills: @Ike: my cat did automatically, a friend tried to throw a bottle cap from across the room into the trash from the couch, and the little kitten ran after it, and brought it back. After that, it was his favorite game (and playing 'hockey' w/ said bottle caps)
	10:59am peter in Sea: Bon jour Trouble and troubled listeners!
	10:59am Linda Lee: @eik ~ what a lovely cat!!
	11:01am MD: I LOVE THIS SONG!!1 IT'S BEEN YEARS!!!
	11:01am Linda Lee: yes. my champion fetcher did it naturally too. displaced predator behavior :-)
	11:01am Lixiviated Life: ... ! Lawn Chairs are presently in the shed.
	11:01am MD: These songs were soooo deep!!!!
	11:01am queems: a tortie!! my girl is a tortie too!!
	11:01am Lixiviated Life: Really going deep into the library for this one.
	11:01am High in Atlanta: Great show today, Trouble! Fun Boy Three. Our Daughter's Wedding. Geez! You are knocking it out of the park!
	11:02am Linda Lee: i've had mainly black cats. never a tortie! my loss. :-)
	11:02am MD: Get it? "Lawn Chairs"....wink....wink!!!
	11:02am Lixiviated Life: Trouble, there's no way your old enough to have heard this back in the day.
	11:03am Linda Lee: i am! & then some. :-D
	11:03am MD: Oh ...I'm just makin stuff up!!!
	11:05am still b/p: Web strap lawn chairs, si! Plastic tube strip lawn chairs, NO!
	11:05am ⓔⓚⓔⓔ: @Linda, good for you! I hear that superstitious people still refuse to adopt black cats, so others like you fortunately step up to fill that gap. I meant to do that too this time, but this one stole my heart first. She's mostly black, though!
	11:05am βrian: Lozenge is a good word. I'd use it as my mantra.
	11:06am Trouble: i love black cats! and orange cats, and grey cats
	11:06am Linda Lee: @eik ~ believe it or not it was never intentional. they just appear. ;-) agree though, it's good to make an effort to adopt the black cats if you have the choice. i think they're lovely.
	11:06am queems: oh man i love big ol grey cats
	11:07am βrian: Our current cat (pictured) is a creamsicle.
	11:08am Linda Lee: what a beauty!! wow. happy too!
	11:09am βrian: That's during "garden time" when the bliss hormones are at high tide.
	11:10am Linda Lee: ho!! no doubt.
	11:12am Linda Lee: 'mas que nada' by brasil 66 ~ most fave record as a wee one. always a soft spot for the song. lovely!!
	11:12am Linda Lee: often sang it to my cats, actually. :-D
	11:13am Linda Lee: using their names for the lyrics.
	11:13am northguineahills: Digging this Luiz Henrique version!
	11:14am Trouble: read this! and go see her at little city books next thursday in hoboken : www.littlecitybooks.com...
	11:15am Linda Lee: one of my cats now lives in Hoboken.. :-D
	11:15am βrian: I used to believe French was the natural language of cats; now I think Portuguese might be more likely.
	11:17am renbo: What genre of music is this I always forget
	11:17am Linda Lee: @Brian ~ yes & they sound just like flora purim at 45 rpm :-)
	11:17am queems: this set is making me feel like i’m on vacation
	11:19am renbo: howdy one of the reasons I got up earlier than usual this mornin was cuz it's thursday and trouble's on!!! work the late shift
	11:20am still b/p: They find their greatest fluency in indifference.
	11:21am Trouble: thank you @renbo!
	11:22am renbo: I meant the Portuguese songs that were just on sorry yeah, definitely girl...i used to always be in trouble and hated it now you showed me trouble can be good too I been listenin to your stuff for more than a decade--can it be close to two?
	11:22am dgg: @JakeGould it surely is horrible. It towers over the entire lower east side and chinatown.
	11:23am dgg: @JakeGould and the East Bway stop is already tiny and packed. So add like 5k people a morning...
	11:24am thriftstoreleather: I love Blossom Dearie!!!
	11:24am thriftstoreleather: yay
	11:27am Lixiviated Life: another recovering catholic? welcome to the club
	11:27am Viviane: it's called tropicalia
	11:29am Nick: Trouble, did you announce the Carla Bruni show? I heard she's perfroming in NYC
	11:30am Linda Lee: oh my word! carla bruni!
	11:31am Trouble: yes gal costa would be tropicalia, but flora purim also?
	11:31am peter in Sea: Thanks for the shoutout! Maybe you can go to BOTH! :-)
	11:31am \ⓔⓘⓚ/: I love Elif Batuman! Also, I just read "The Nightmare Stacks" by Charles Stross. It's the best book I've ever read about a romantically-inexperienced 24-year-old investment banking software engineer who accidentally turned himself into a vampire with advanced computational mathematics, then was basically forced into the secret British anti-occult civil service, and has to fight bloodthirsty feudal magical elves who are invading Leeds because they're fleeing a parallel universe full of Eldritch horrors.
	11:32am Trouble: thanks @nick! carla bruni in boston at berkelee tonight, nyc town hall tomorrow
	11:32am foofs: Carla! The Melania Trump of coffee table folk-lite!
	11:32am Itzall Ablurr: "Elf Batman"?!? Is that anything like Bizzarro Superman?!?
	11:33am Trouble: ike you have missed your calling: book reviewer extrodinaire!
	11:35am Chris from DC: Crap, I missed "Lawnchairs".
	11:36am still b/p: Bloodthirsty Feudal Magical Elves — GNFAB winner for Feb.
	11:42am D. Lightfoot: play something to shoo the doom imps from my mind
	11:45am thriftstoreleather: how can people hate the saxophone??
	11:48am thriftstoreleather: cool, The Yearning is new! That's exciting :)
	11:49am D. Lightfoot: It's a woodwind made of brass--people don't like things that try to have it both ways
	11:51am thriftstoreleather: are there wooden saxophones out there? that might be cool..
	11:52am D. Lightfoot: Yes, they are called clarinets
	11:52am βrian: Reminds me of RadioDread.
	11:52am thriftstoreleather: I knew you were gonna say that :)
	11:53am βrian: But not the Ska thing.
	11:53am partyfinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_saxophone plastic ones
	11:55am thriftstoreleather: ThePlasticSax, thats a good band name
	11:55am \ⓔⓘⓚ/: It's very funny, yet the culture of the vicious, bloodthirsty elves is actually well-written and distinctive, too. It's a military dictatorship enforced by a magical chain of command. The culture shock that the invaders experience is really interesting.
	11:55am Trouble: thanks for sitting in, troublers!
	11:55am partyfinger: indeed!
	11:56am βrian: Coming up on the hour: Underwater Theme Park with Meghan wfmu.org...
	11:56am Priscilla: Thanks Trouble — I feel you are an island of sanity today :-(
	11:58am queems: thanks trouble!
	11:59am northguineahills: Thanks Trouble!
	11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: I believe Meghan's having a birthday show today.
	11:59am thriftstoreleather: look at the time!
	12:00pm thriftstoreleather: thanks Trouble!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from February 15, 2018

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